Wrapping bundle or coil of wire and like articles



ARTICLES C. E. DALE Nov. 7, 1933.

WRAPPING BUNDLE OR COIL OF WIRE AND LIKE Filed June 5, 1933 6 quickly removed as r'atented Nov. 7, 1933 WRAPPING BUNDLE OR COIL OF WIRE AND LIKE ARTICLES Clayton E. Dale,

Crawfordsville, Ind., assignor to Mid-States Steel & Wire 00., Crawfordsville, Ind., a corporation of Indiana Application June 5, 1933. Serial No. 674,453 2 Claims. (01. 206-59) This invention relates to a new and improved wrapped bundle of coiled wire and has for its primary object to provide a bundle wherein the wrapping, preferably in paper can be easily and a unit.

A further object of the invention is to provide a rip wire formed independent of the bundle of coil wire and which has one end-formed for anchorage to the bundle whereby to prevent slippage of the rip wire in the act of removing the wrapper.

It is a common practice among manufacturers of wire to coil the same in proper size bundles, and in order to protect the finish on the wire and keep the wire in a clean condition, the coils of these bundles are covered by wrapping a continuous strip of paper transversely and circumferentiallyof the bundle. Wire such as I have in mind is used in the basket industry; the box industry, where boxes are wire bound;..manufacturers of hardwood lumber who-use wire for .tying purposes; stitching machines; users of tinned wire; telephone wire; users of bright galvanized wire, which on account of the locality into which the wire is shipped must be protected from moisture, as for instance jobbers and distributors who carry this wire in stock and are located near salt water; black annealed wire which must be kept from rusting when stored for an indefinite period, and for other and various purposes and uses.

It is a tedious job, and costly, to unwrap from each bundle of wire these strips to enable the workman or user to get possession of the proper end of the bundle for threading into a machine and then without any assurance that the wire has been started from the proper end a not properly done,

of the bundle, which, when will result in the wire becoming tangled and not uncoiling properly.

I have discovered a very simple and improved method of so wrapping coiled bundles of wire with strips of paper that the wrapping may be quickly and expeditiously removed as a unit, without any labor and expenditure of time and in a manner which will absolutely insure the drawing of the wire from the bundle at the proper end of the bundle and so as to avoid any possibility of the coiled wire becoming tangler or improperly uncoiled.

My invention therefore consists in first coiling wire into a proper sized bundle and to provide preferably two or more band wires secured transversely of the coiled wires in the bundle to securely fasten the coils.

- and terminates in a finger Then in providing a rip ,wire

which has anchoring means at one end, the wire being disposed either circumferentially along a side of the bundle or peripherally thereof; then wrapping a strip of paper tightly about the bundle transversely and circumferentially thereof so that there are no exposed wire surfaces, thus maintaining the bundle moisture proof.

and by a pull thereon tears,

severs or ruptures the wrapping throughout the whole circumference of the bundle allowing its removal as a complete unit without the tedious effort heretofore required of unwrapping the stituting the covering.

Further objects will more the following description:

That the invention may be entire strip confully appear from more fully understood, reference is had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this description illustrating preferred embodiments of which:-

the invention, in

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the preferred form of the invention showing 1y broken away the wrapping parti Fig. 2 is a similar view of a modified form of the invention; and

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary wrapped article.

Like characters of reference perspective view of the denote corresponding parts throughout the figures.

In proceeding in accordanc invention, a bundle of wire 1 into the desired size and is its coiled formation by means e with the present is coiled or wound preferably held in of several radially 9 disposed band wires 2 which may be disposed 5 diametrically opposite to each other or at other suitably located points. As shown in Fig. 1, a

rip wire 3 is provided which,

have a hook or loop 4 on one end that may be with one of the tie or in Fig. 1. The rip wire hooked into engagement band wires 2, as shown extends along the side of th in one form may e bundle of coiled wire and throughout the circumference thereof operation, the hooked end 4 tie wire 2 as shown in the gripping end 5. In is engaged with the drawing following which the paper wrapping 5' is applied by winding same tightly and firmly both circumferentially and tr about the bundle ansversely thereof. 1 0

When the paper wrapping is applied the projectlng end of the rip wire is extended without the wrapping, preferably by piercing the wrapping. A designating tag 6 is slipped onto the projecting end and the latter is then laid against the wrapped bundle preferably by a wire band 7. The end 5 of the rip wire afiords a finger grip as well as a holder for the tag 6.

In the modified form of the invention shown in Fig. 2 a rip wire 8 is disposed peripherally of the bundle and in this form the inner end of the rip wire is formed with a loop 9 having a free end 10 which latter may, if desirable or it seems ex-.

pedient, be dug into the bundle of wire to anchor the same, or the loop can be laid fiat against the bundle of coiled wire following which the paper wrapping is applied by wrapping same one or more times about the loop. In the latter instance where the loop is laid flat against the bundle of coiled wire it will be seen that upon the operator initially applying the wrapping the latter .will cause the sides of the loop to be engaged and held between adjacent coils of the bundle whereby secure anchorage of the rip wire is had. The projecting end 11 is similar to that shown in Fig. 1 as is the designating tag 12. The wrapping as to the recited securernent of the loop is then completed so that the entire bundle is provided with a covering which extends both circumferentially and transversely thereof.

If desired the hook or loop in Fig. 1, may be anchored by the wrapper alone as shown in Fig. 2, although where same is hooked to the tie wire a double anchorage is afforded.

When it is desired to use the bundle of wire for whatever purpose, the operator first severs the band '7 and then grasps the exposed or projecting end 5 or 11 of the rip wire in one hand and grasps the wrapped bundle in his other hand and by pull exerted on the rip wire circumierentially or the bundle the wrapping is severed or torn or ruptured so that it is then removable as a unit. Therefore, it will be obvious that a pull exerted on the projecting end of the rip wire for the distance of substantially one complete turn of the bundle effects rupture of the complete wrapping whereby it may be removed as a unit and in a virtually single and continuous operation.

Upon removal of a wrapper the coiled bundle still remains intact whereupon the outer free end of the wire of the bundle may be fed into a machine for whatever purpose and then by severing the band wires 2 the wireof the bundle may be unwound or uncoiled without danger of tangling or being improperly uncoiled.

What is claimed is:

1. The hereindescribed article comprising a bundle of coiled wire, a rip wire independent from and engaged with the bundle and extending substantially around same, a wrapping of fragile ma terial disposed about the bundle and the rip wire, one end of the said rip wire being formed into a loop with the sides or the loop engaged and held between adjacent coils of the bundle by the said wrapping, the opposite end of said rip wire being free and projecting through the wrapping, whereby upon pull of said free end the rip wire will rupture the entire wrapping.

2. The article set forth in claim 1 wherein the bundle has a tie wire engaged radially about the bundle and with which the loop of the rip wire has hooked engagement.

' CLAYTON E. DALE. 

